Chronologist:Well, this is it. I can't get 4-1. No, really. I CAN'T GET 4-1. Why? I guess I'm too stupid.

I thought this would be a fun mental exercise. I thought if I put enough effort into it, I could do it. I guess I was wrong. Now, every time I think about this site, I'm going to remember that I'm a failure. I'm going to remember how I got hints and tips and guidance, and I STILL couldn't figure out 4-1. It doesn't matter if someone tells me the answer or not, the point is I'm just not good enough to figure it out on my own.

Thanks for that, Escapist. Thank you for adding yet another thing to the increasingly long list of my shortcomings.

Dude, let me offer some hints. Can you see the hidden letters?

NO. The colors come out wrong. Some don't come up at all. The Starcraft code does nothing. My Laptop is crap and I have no idea how to use my browser's preferences.

I got not one, but two different set of code answers from other forum members and NEITHER worked for the decoding process. NEITHER. They both give gibberish. I have no idea where to go from there.

I know nothing about codes and encryption. All I know is I failed.

I... I forfeit. You wanted to break me, huh? Well, you did it. You finally did it. Did it make you feel better? Smarter? Superior? Well, it made me feel awful, stupid, and insignificant.

Chronologist:Well, this is it. I can't get 4-1. No, really. I CAN'T GET 4-1. Why? I guess I'm too stupid.

I thought this would be a fun mental exercise. I thought if I put enough effort into it, I could do it. I guess I was wrong. Now, every time I think about this site, I'm going to remember that I'm a failure. I'm going to remember how I got hints and tips and guidance, and I STILL couldn't figure out 4-1. It doesn't matter if someone tells me the answer or not, the point is I'm just not good enough to figure it out on my own.

Thanks for that, Escapist. Thank you for adding yet another thing to the increasingly long list of my shortcomings.

Dude, let me offer some hints. Can you see the hidden letters?

NO. The colors come out wrong. Some don't come up at all. The Starcraft code does nothing. My Laptop is crap and I have no idea how to use my browser's preferences.

I got not one, but two different set of code answers from other forum members and NEITHER worked for the decoding process. NEITHER. They both give gibberish. I have no idea where to go from there.

I know nothing about codes and encryption. All I know is I failed.

I... I forfeit. You wanted to break me, huh? Well, you did it. You finally did it. Did it make you feel better? Smarter? Superior? Well, it made me feel awful, stupid, and insignificant.

Well, ignoring the different colors part, did you hit ENTER before and after the Starcraft code? I kinda had to do that for mine. I don't know about browser preference issues, though.

Ok, I will be honest. Except for Day 1 Puzzle 1 I NEVER would have gotten ANY of these puzzles without the assistence of the fine (and not so fine) folks of the Escapist Forums. Excepting the EVIL EVIL EVIL mods.

SpiderHam666:Ok, I will be honest. Except for Day 1 Puzzle 1 I NEVER would have gotten ANY of these puzzles without the assistence of the fine (and not so fine) folks of the Escapist Forums. Excepting the EVIL EVIL EVIL mods.

Agreed!

Kudos to all who posted helpful hints.

And Shame on you Escapist for turning the brains of your loyal fans into so much gelatinous goop.

Wow! I made it! Well, thanks to the Escapist Staff for creating what was possibly the coolest ,and most difficult, puzzles ever.To Landslide and ThyNameIsMud, who created the puzzles and to the Nerd Queen, Susan Arendt, who cheered us on.

And, of course, to my fellow Escapists who helped me along the way. As much as I would like to say I did it on my own thanks to my huge brain, it would be bull.

Damn. Day five has been as tortuous a puzzle as I think I can take. Today's puzzle has required leaps of logic, keen attention to detail and a little guess-work to find the solution. I would have overlooked a step or two along the path if not for some of the hints provided along the way. I was able to solve many of the puzzles without assistance, but a few, such as today's, required many minds.

Congratulations to the Escapist staff. While many felt that the leap of logic required by the final puzzle was too great, I think the fact that some of us made it goes to show that the puzzle was more insidious than sloppy. Good work.

I've given myself a migraine trying to solve this one but I got there in the end, possibly through completely wrong reasoning but still somehow arriving at the right solution. Thanks chaps and chapesses for a right good brain breaking!

The last part had me stuck for quite a while, though I figured who the guys were (thanks to a couple of movies). I looked for hints here, but still couldn't get the game.

just in casePHA+dGhlbiBJIHRob3VnaHQgYWJvdXQgc2ltaWxhciBnYW1lIGNoYXJhY3RlcnM8L3A+

and my first thought when I figured it out was "You have got to be kidding me". I had actually forgotten that game. And now I gots me a badge.Pitty I couldn't join in the solving while you were in the heat of it, but I needed my sleep.So thank you all and thank you, Escapist people. Indeed, bring out the next puzzle.

Wow, one of the hints helped me FINALLY get the answer. But I still can't see how I was supposed to make that last jump without one. There were so many other things that tie in better. And I still can't get the other page to load even having gotten the right answer. >.>

As far as that goes my favorite game would have matched its actual game title better to the final solution.

havass:I don't feel guilty about adding all the hints up to solve the puzzle now, because i've never played that game before. Maybe I should go get it now. And I find it amusing how I've tried entering this game multiple times for yesterday's puzzle. Oh well. Now that's over...I have to start closing all the various tabs that were required for this ONE puzzle.

Hint:

A little obscure, but if you know what the phrase means..PHA+RGVjYXkgb3ZlciB0aW1lLjwvcD4=

I love you so much right now x.x I spent two hours...TWO NARFING HOURS trying to figure out what the last clue meant, but this...this finally made it click in my head.

Oh and, side note: My brain is now made of porridge. Kthnxbai. Now, I'm going to go to bed. Wake me up when the world stops being all blurry and painful to look at.